I believe there are two issues involved here: the Tantaros' bookcover (seriously, Ailes had a problem with it ??!!!) and the harassment charge, which many believe is the primary issue. While several of the Fox faithful supporte Ailes (Kimberly Guilfoyle, Dana Perino, along with others), Tantaros' demotion came the day after the book was released. Coupled with the fact that Tantaros is still being paid, and we have reason to believe that Tantaros has a serious complaint or she would have been terminated without pay, immediately, as was Gretchen Carlson ~ editor.
Fox
News’ senior executives have said they were unaware of
sexual-harassment allegations against Roger Ailes before former anchor
Gretchen Carlson filed a lawsuit against him in July. But those claims
are now being challenged by Fox host Andrea Tantaros, who says that she
complained multiple times to senior Fox executives in 2015 about Ailes’s
inappropriate sexual behavior toward her. Tantaros says that, after she
came forward, she was first demoted and eventually taken off the air in
April 2016. Fox continues to pay her.
Through
her lawyer, Judd Burstein, Tantaros says that both she and her agent
told Fox executive vice-president Bill Shine, senior vice-president
Suzanne Scott, and general counsel Dianne Brandi about episodes of
Ailes’s alleged harassment. “She made multiple harassment and
hostile-workplace complaints,” Burstein says. As far as Tantaros knows,
Fox executives never investigated her complaints, Burstein says;
instead, they claim, Fox sidelined her. “I believe it’s retaliatory,”
says Burstein.
Fox’s
attorneys dispute this. The network says Tantaros was suspended with
pay because she violated company policy by not allowing Fox to vet her
2016 book, Tied Up in Knots: How Getting What They Wanted Has Made Women Miserable. Fox attorneys told Burstein the network was embarrassed by her book’s cover, which depicts Tantaros bound by ropes. (Read the full story, here).
I agree about the picture on the cover of the book. Pretty weird. Although I did enjoy Ms Tantaros. But when a woman dresses to be looked at in the manner she dressed what does she expect ? It would be hard for any man not to say something about the cover I know men are thinking it just cowardly not to say something about it. I still enjoy her thoughts and political views. Perhaps they can come to common ground. She wore very tight clothes. Most of the women on Fox does the same thing which is probably why they have great ratings. I would be interested to know what Ms Tantaros earned at Fox News. I always admired her talking about the way she was brought up, work hard and be responsible for your behavior. We will see what happens next. She is a beautiful woman and if she didn’t get those kind of comments i would be concerned. I remember some of her on lined comments about men of choice.
ReplyDeleteHer salary at Fox is $250,000 per year plus her radio show. She now writes for various conservative publications. Her net worth is aroubnd 1.5 million.
DeleteI am 71. Andrea is a Millennial babe. The way she comports herself will reflect her generational uniqueness. I gave her book to three of my 18 year old granddaughters. They loved it. I saqw nothing in the book that I viewed as dangerous. I, like you, did not care for the cover.